A Portage County deputy leads Jose Luis Flores Aca through a side door Wednesday into Portage County Court Branch No. 3. Flores Aca is the suspect in the murder of Jamie Koch, 36, of Plover.

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B.C. Kowalski
Stevens Point Journal Media

Investigators say they got their best chance of finding the suspected killer of a 36-year-old Plover woman through his connection to a farm in Waupaca.

Those among other details emerged as prosecutors presented evidence and interviewed witnesses during a preliminary hearing Wednesday for Jose Luis Flores Aca, 32, of Plover, who is accused of killing, sexually assaulting and attempting to hide the body of Jamie Koch, his neighbor in Plover.

Prosecutors said they think Flores Aca killed Koch by strangling her Aug. 7, drove her body in her car to Waupaca and then set her car on fire with her body ...